On September 15th, the day after the release of the promotional video of the S1 World Finals, the participating teams arrived in the imperial capital one after another and checked in at the designated hotel for the event.

On September 17th, all the participating teams have arrived and signed in, and the draw ceremony for the play-in tournament was officially held that night.

Since the 32 teams are all champions from their respective tracks, and everyone is the No. 1 seed, there is no such thing as superiority, so the draw rules for the play-in tournament are very simple and crude.

According to the order of the draw, the teams will be entered into the four groups of A, B, C, and D in turn, with a total of 8 teams in each group.

At eight o'clock in the evening, countless League of Legends players around the world stood in the live broadcast room, waiting for the lottery ceremony to be held and the lottery results to be released.

The live broadcast room has a picture access on time, and in the picture, the stage layout is still quite atmospheric and formal.

A beautiful woman dressed in a cheongsam with a classical Chinese charm walked to the center of the stage generously, the beauty has the feeling of a typical oriental beauty, the cheongsam outlines its graceful posture to the extreme, which makes people think about it, under the cheongsam, a pair of slender and straight legs like a jade chopstick are dizzy under the illumination of the light.

In the face of this woman who is so beautiful that she seems to have walked out of a picture scroll, the barrage, who has always been known for her shamelessness, has begun to call "wife" one after another.

"Hello everyone, I'm the host Li Chen, welcome to watch the draw ceremony of the League of Legends World Championship Top 32 Play-in Tournament......"

The voice of the beautiful hostess is like a sweet spring, like a breeze, refreshing people's hearts, causing the corners of countless idiots' mouths to rise uncontrollably.

As expected, after making an introduction in Chinese, she repeated it again in fluent English, with beauty and talent, worthy of being the host who came out of the world benchmark and the original heart of the king of the volume.

Since the first WCS, the original intention in the event of a variety of initiatives have become a benchmark for latecomers to learn from, although the benchmark looks higher, but the benefits are also obvious, today's e-sports environment has changed the chaotic appearance of the past, with a formal, formal, style and new look of cards are presented in front of the world, in the face of the new e-sports industry, many giants in other industries have cast their eyes and seen the great prospects contained in it, which is also an important reason for the vigorous development of the e-sports industry in recent years.

Since it was only a lottery ceremony, everyone only wanted to know the final lottery results quickly, so the lottery ceremony did not arrange any water time link, and after the host made the opening remarks, he officially entered the main drama and prepared to draw lots.

"Next, let's be very honored to have the three-time StarCraft WCS World Championship winner - V-V- on the stage!"

Listening to the host's enthusiastic introduction, watching the familiar faces of the star queen and a generation of e-sports legends appear on stage, the players in front of the screen instantly became excited, shouting "V God" across the screen, in order to express their heartfelt worship and respect for this great e-sports goddess.

"I believe that many of the viewers who are watching the live broadcast now are fans of our V God, V God, can you say hello to the audience and fans?"

Han Xiaowei had no stage fright, smiled confidently, and said a simple hello: "Hello everyone, I'm StarCraft professional player VV." ”

"Holy! What is a row of noodles, in addition to the original intention, who can invite V God to stand on the platform in person? ”

"V God I love you!"

"Didn't someone say before that if the lottery was not good, it would be sprayed directly? Whoever dares to spray now, Lao Tzu is the first to spray back. ”

"This wave, this wave is one of the hands of the true gods!"

The lottery process is very open and transparent, Gu Feng borrowed from the lottery method of the League of Legends in his previous life, all the notes with the names of the participating teams were placed in exactly the same opaque spheres, and the balls were filled with a transparent fiberglass, which is equivalent to people can see the movements of the lottery personnel's hands in it from any angle.

After a small lottery process, the final results of the play-in groups were all settled.

The three representative teams of Huaxia, the city track champion from the magic capital, the fried bun team from the magic capital were divided into Group A, the college track champion from Jingbei University's Yingluo team was divided into Group C, and the star-chasing team from the Qunying track, which was regarded as a strong contender for the championship by countless people, was divided into Group D.

It's also funny to say, the team names of the three teams in China don't feel anything just by looking at the Chinese names, but the English names are more than one another.

The English word for raw fried buns is "Pan Fried Pork Bun Pan", so the abbreviation of their team is directly called PPP, and then it is jokingly called the 3P team, so that people who don't know think that this team has some strange habits.

Sakuraku's English name is "The Cherry Falls", and the abbreviation of the team name is CF Team.

It seems that there is nothing strange about Sakura and Chasing Stars, but for Gu Feng, these two names are quite funny, when he first saw these two names, Gu Feng almost couldn't help but squirt out the water he drank.

It's such a coincidence, one is called CS, and the other is called CF, right? Gu Feng suspected that these two games were in the Spirit of Heaven, complaining that he had done so many games, and they didn't come.

Although everyone called it the eleventh competition area, in fact, everyone still has some judgment on the strength of the different divisions.

Compared with the regions where e-sports is booming and there are many players, the overall strength of those regions where e-sports is not very valued and the number of players is much smaller than that of other regions is definitely weaker.

According to the number of teams participating in each region and the degree of attention paid to local e-sports, these regions are generally divided into three strength echelons.

The upstream competition area is the most promising competition area in the eyes of the public. It includes the host China Division, the European Division, which is full of competitive powerhouses, the North American Division, where the world's strongest country, the United States, is located, and the Kimchi Division, which vigorously supports e-sports and has many top e-sports players.

In the midstream division, the strength is slightly inferior to the four major regions, but the strength should not be underestimated, and there is a certain probability that there will be a dark horse counterattack to win the championship. Such divisions include the Samba Division, where the football power is located, the CIS Division, where the world's largest country in terms of area is located, and the Neon Division, which advocates hard work despite the small country.

In the eyes of the public, they are here to travel abroad, and the game is a number, when it is a background board, if you can upset one or two as a water ghost, it will not be in vain. Including Oceania, Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

It is worth mentioning that Xiaowan Province and even the two special administrative regions have not been included in the Southeast Asia Division, but as a matter of course have been classified into the Huaxia Division, I have to say that the strength of Xiaowan Province is still there, and there are teams in the city track and the university track that have played well, but in the end they all fell on the way to the top 32.